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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Education policy</title>
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		<title>The numbers don&#8217;t lye: our kids reely have goodness righting skills.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/education-policy/the-numbers-dont-lye-our-kids-reely-have-goodness-righting-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/education-policy/the-numbers-dont-lye-our-kids-reely-have-goodness-righting-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-stakes school testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Appalling, essential article on what level of writing earns a passing grade on New York's high school leaving exam.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Harvard fail</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/harvard-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/harvard-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, the president of Harvard stood up to an unaccountable, unAmerican, evil conspiracy.  I also count Joseph Welch, a Harvard Law alum, (and coincidentally, another Iowa boy) as one of my heroes in the same national battle.  Of course, the stakes then were limited: only the survival of American liberty and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Hampshire public education goes in the ignorance business</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/new-hampshire-public-education-goes-in-the-ignorance-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/new-hampshire-public-education-goes-in-the-ignorance-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=26858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed this while it was happening, but it got some attention in the NYT today.  New Hampshire has enacted a law that seems to give parents unilateral power to line-item veto their kids&#8217; curriculum in public schools.  The law looks like a can of worms, because the parents&#8217; substitute material has to be &#8220;sufficient [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doing the right thing for the wrong reason</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/science-and-its-methods/doing-the-right-thing-for-the-wrong-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/science-and-its-methods/doing-the-right-thing-for-the-wrong-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and its methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At my company (less in my unit of it), teaching is basically treated as a tax you have to pay to do your research, and faculty are hired and promoted for research and encouraged to avoid this tax where possible; indeed, one of our principal recruitment gestures is a reduced teaching load for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>What we don&#8217;t know that sometimes won&#8217;t hurt us</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/science-and-its-methods/what-we-dont-know-that-sometimes-wont-hurt-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/science-and-its-methods/what-we-dont-know-that-sometimes-wont-hurt-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and its methods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Drum channels Brad DeLong to recall a Calvin and Hobbes sequence in which Calvin&#8217;s dad reassures him that it&#8217;s colder in the winter because the earth is farther from the sun then than in the summer. Kevin asks for a survey to find out how many people believe that.  As it happens, a small [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Something happening here</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/education-policy/something-happening-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/education-policy/something-happening-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of California]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The faculty senate meeting passed all four resolutions en bloc about 10:1,  336-34. The resolutions are here, here, here, and here. This morning, specific language of no confidence in the administration was removed from one of the resolutions by its sponsors so it wouldn&#8217;t appear to be a demand for resignation. I think the attendance, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Occupy UC</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/politics-and-leadership/occupy-uc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/politics-and-leadership/occupy-uc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of California]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Berkeley faculty will have a special meeting to consider several resolutions condemning the police behavior at the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstration, and another resolution that says in part: Therefore be it Resolved that the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate has lost confidence in the ability of Chancellor Birgeneau, EVC Breslauer [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>University of California protests and, um, leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/crime-control/university-of-california-protests-and-um-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/crime-control/university-of-california-protests-and-um-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s cops suited up in their riot armor and, AFAIK with our campus officers , beat a bunch of our students and faculty with batons, my chancellor was in Shanghai setting up a branch campus; I don&#8217;t know who was nominally in charge and forgot to be in charge.  When the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where is the college sports nation?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/uncategorized/where-is-the-college-sports-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/uncategorized/where-is-the-college-sports-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has now been two weeks, and the PSU affair is still, almost universally, treated as a localized problem in a small town in Pennsylvania involving mistreatment of kids (not players, not students).  But that&#8217;s not what the Penn State crisis is: Penn State is just the place where a much more pervasive sickmess was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Berkeley protests</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/california-politics/berkeley-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/california-politics/berkeley-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an OWS-affiliated (whatever that actually means) crowd tried to occupy what functions as a quad at Berkeley, with tents in which to stay a while.  Campus police and Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived in armor looking like Darth Vaders, cleared the tents away by force, pulled down signs, and brutalized a bunch of students [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don Taylor and I on Bloggingheads, discussing CLASS Act, disability policy, college sports</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/education-policy/don-taylor-and-i-on-bloggingheads-discussing-class-act-disability-policy-college-sports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/education-policy/don-taylor-and-i-on-bloggingheads-discussing-class-act-disability-policy-college-sports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you look up the term &#8220;anti-charismatic&#8221; in the new Oxford English multimedia dictionary, you get the left-side video in this Bloggingheads video. My friend Don Taylor, who teaches public policy at Duke, benefits from the comparison. Oh yeah. his terrific book &#8220;Balancing The Budget is a Progressive Priority&#8221; is available here.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quality and politics</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/politics-and-leadership/quality-and-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/politics-and-leadership/quality-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As is well known, the California legislature is slashing state support for higher education, forcing us to raise tuition again and again.  One response at Cal has been a consulting project from Bain and Co., called Operational Excellence (perhaps because the words quality and excellence hardly occur in any of their product, which is about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Out-of-state students at UC</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/education-policy/out-of-state-students-at-uc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/education-policy/out-of-state-students-at-uc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of California, less and less a taxpayer-funded enterprise, is admitting more and more students from outside the state ostensibly to get their higher tuition payments. There&#8217;s a lot more to this than current finances, though.  First, people who come to California as students tend to stay here (not as much as in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government by other means; more on FSU/Koch</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/education-policy/government-by-other-means/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/education-policy/government-by-other-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Labor Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My post on Florida State&#8217;s sellout to a right-wing foundation deserves some more general, and less snarky, reflection on several aspects of the deal. Donor Influence A distinctive, possibly unique, feature of the way Americans do our collective business, noted by de Tocqueville almost two centuries ago and long predating the tax preferences for charities [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Florida way</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/politics-and-leadership/the-florida-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/politics-and-leadership/the-florida-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 05:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Labor Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Florida State is among the victims of a savage budget attack from the state government; in their case $100m in the last four years. The football team is doing fine and making money, so there&#8217;s no real crisis at hand.  But a university is a large and complicated enterprise, with dozens of specialized activities affecting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why do we undercapitalize white-collar workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/economics/why-do-we-undercapitalize-white-collar-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/economics/why-do-we-undercapitalize-white-collar-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 06:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Built Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The  paper SF Chronicle has a front-page story about the crisis of deferred maintenance at California&#8217;s state universities.  [update 11/V; here's the link] Things are as bad as you think. Dangerous things like leaks into electrical cabinets, power outages, a blackboard that fell off the wall and injured a grad student last fall; &#8220;broken windows&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>More high-stakes  testing, more open cheating</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/education-policy/high-stakes-school-testing/more-high-stakes-testing-more-open-cheating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/education-policy/high-stakes-school-testing/more-high-stakes-testing-more-open-cheating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 00:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High-stakes school testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest from Philadelphia.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stanford Should Welcome ROTC Back to Campus</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/education-policy/stanford-should-welcome-rotc-back-to-campus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/education-policy/stanford-should-welcome-rotc-back-to-campus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Big vote in our academic council senate this Thursday, and an easy one for me. There is much to be gained from bringing ROTC back, both because of the mutual learning that could occur between universities and the military and because I see a number of young veterans feeling isolated on university campuses because no [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Plague-on-both-your-houses-Dept.: UC Hastings Law School</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/international-affairs/israel/plague-on-both-your-houses-dept-uc-hastings-law-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/international-affairs/israel/plague-on-both-your-houses-dept-uc-hastings-law-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This seems to me to be a pretty blatant attack on academic freedom.  George Bisharat, a professor at the UC Hastings School of Law, organized a conference entitled &#8220;Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure Palestinian Rights?&#8221;  It&#8217;s pretty much what you&#8217;d expect: lots of speakers decrying Israel, advocating BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) against Israel, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Michelle Rhee is a liar &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/lying-in-politics/michelle-rhee-is-a-liar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/lying-in-politics/michelle-rhee-is-a-liar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High-stakes school testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's no way on earth those test results weren't faked, and no way Rhee can't know that they were faked. Her slime-and-defend denial makes her an accomplice - at the very least - in a massive fraud.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>If a thing&#8217;s worth winning &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/uncategorized/if-a-things-worth-winning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/uncategorized/if-a-things-worth-winning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-stakes school testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[... it's worth cheating for. The D.C. school system provides another example. Management-by-measurement needs to build in cheating-prevention features, including punishment for cheaters.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Education and the Baumol Cost Disease</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/education-policy/education-and-the-baumol-cost-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/education-policy/education-and-the-baumol-cost-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One teacher, one blackboard, thirty students:  a recipe for educational bankruptcy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another bump on the Cal athletics road</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/education-policy/another-bump-on-the-cal-athletics-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/education-policy/another-bump-on-the-cal-athletics-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, Berkeley announced that it would cut five teams to reduce the annual subsidy the campus gives to intercollegiate athletics from around $11 14m [corr. 12/II] to $5m.  Most places with six-figure administrators do some analysis before making multi-million dollar decisions, especially analysis of the relevant laws, but it appears that didn&#8217;t happen here: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Regulation and neighborhood housing price effects</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/economics/regulation-and-neighborhood-housing-price-effects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/economics/regulation-and-neighborhood-housing-price-effects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urbanism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The findings of Kahn, Zasloff and Vaughn about the effect of California Coastal Commission regulation in its effective area reminded me of something.  For a while, I couldn&#8217;t quite put my finger on it, but it came to me this morning.  I&#8217;m not sure they had to go all the way to Santa Monica from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Education</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/education-policy/education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/education-policy/education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days, I got to read the comments on my previous post about QA in education; reviewed the work of a bunch of graduate students in a quantitative methods course,  in response to the assignment &#8220;for your final project, find a problem for/context in which one or another of the models we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deming, thou should&#8217;st be living at this hour</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/education-policy/deming-thou-shouldst-be-living-at-this-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/education-policy/deming-thou-shouldst-be-living-at-this-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Otterman reviews the failing, flailing efforts of New York City to improve teaching the easy way.  The story, and the management it describes, is all about trying to get quality by incentives and personnel, in particular, sorting teachers into good, bad, and indifferent bins by observing student test score changes over a year.  Presumably, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>On &#8220;the humanities&#8221; and the skills of communication</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/uncategorized/on-the-humanities-and-the-skills-of-communication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/uncategorized/on-the-humanities-and-the-skills-of-communication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, communication is among the subjects of the humanities. And yes, the capacity to communicate clearly has great economic value. But no, instruction in the humanities does not, in general, aim at improving job-relevant communications skills.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Prison in Which We Put Our Children: In Memory of Sladjana Vidovic and Her Fellow Victims</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/education-policy/the-prison-in-which-we-put-our-children-in-memory-of-sladjana-vidovic-and-her-fellow-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/education-policy/the-prison-in-which-we-put-our-children-in-memory-of-sladjana-vidovic-and-her-fellow-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teen suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my first month of college, I was in my dormitory grill waiting in line to buy a burger. An enormous lineman from the football team strolled in, cut directly to the front of the line and said “Hey, free food!” and began grabbing the order of the person who was then paying at the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>New game plan for Berkeley athletics</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/politics-and-leadership/new-game-plan-for-berkeley-athletics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/politics-and-leadership/new-game-plan-for-berkeley-athletics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been fairly tough on Berkeley&#8217;s chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, in this space in the past, and this obliges me to give him a shout-out for the very tough call he just made to control the financial bleeding of the school&#8217;s intercollegiate athletics (IA) program.  Following a faculty vote to put this program on a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nice while it lasted</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/education-policy/nice-while-it-lasted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/education-policy/nice-while-it-lasted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The University of California still looks like an intellectual powerhouse. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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